not allowed to associate with him or his family) to what is better on a sandwich, peanut butter or jelly. Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but certainly bad enough. And it's taking it's toll on my psyche and I don't like it. Everyone knows me as the happy-go-lucky, optimistic, ever-peppy child who stands out among the crowd with her bright clothes and brighter personality. I don't like dissappointing them. I want to be the girl everyone thinks I am, the one whose life is perfect, who never has a bad thing to say about anyone because she gets along with everone. I snapped at one of my best guy friends yesterday because he asked me if I was okay. Blew up in his face and later felt absolutely horrid about it. I don't want to do that. On top of everything, I now have this chick in my head that I talk to. She's a character of mine, I wanted to have a conversation with someone who knew as much as I did, or as little, however you see it, so I created a charrie based off me and my situation. Her name's Jackie, I'll probly have a story about her up here soon. I talk to her when I can't talk to anyone else. I don't know if that means I need psychiatric help, if I talk to my characters and they speak back. I find I don't know a lot of things these days.
Devious Comments
Erm...I've talked to certain of my characters, pretty much daily, for years. Um. Er. Yeah. They've helped me through some pretty bad times, and they're a joy to be around. I've worried about it too, but I figure as long as we KNOW they're in our head, it's ok...I dunno. I know they're "imaginary," I guess, but they're also very real. I can see them in my mind's eye, clear as anything, even if I can't see them with my real eyes. And they've developed their own personalities and relationships over the years--ones I didn't create myself. Don't ask me what it means. They're some of the earliest characters I ever created, and they've been with me for a long long time. I don't know when they stopped being pictures on a page and became my muses. I know they help my writing; I think I probably started talking to them along the lines of "What would your character say if [blank] happened?" And they'd respond, and everything would feel truer to character. I think of them more as actors in a play than as living in the story; they have their own things to go off and do when I don't need them. And not all, or even most, of the chars in my books are like that.
Seriously, though. I'm sure you and your friends will be ok; everybody gets into fights. And there will be other boys who will love you for who you are. You're a great, kind person, and things will turn out alright. Just ride out the storm, and you'll see light on the other side.
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"Work...now...Freak...later!" ~John Crichton, Farscape
"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this wierdness." ~Jack Sparrow
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